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LANCASTRIANA. 
I. 



A SUPPLEMENT 



TO THE 



EARLY RECORDS AND MILITARY ANNALS 



OF 



LANCASTER, MASSACHUSETTS. 

BY 

HENRY S. NOURSE. 



LANCASTER, 
1900 



■ LI 



PRESS OF WM. J. COULTER, 

CLINTON. MASS. 



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PREFACE. 



Q^UCH original records as long and earnest search had 
^'"'^ brought to light, which could serve to illustrate, at any 
point, the story of Lancaster and her people during the 
period ending A. D. 1725, were collected into a volume 
printed in 1884. Since then a few items of interest relating 
to the same history have been found and are gathered in the 
following pages, together with other subsidiary matter, to 
serve as a supplement to The Early Records of Lancaster. 
A few historical notes are added supplementary to, or cor- 
recting, statements in The Military Annals of Lancaster, 
printed in 1889. Each item bears a reference to some page 
in those works. 




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EARLY RECORDS 



OF 



LANCASTER, MASSACHUSETTS. 



THE LOST RECORDS. 

IDAGES 6 and 152, It has been surmised, and even 
■■■ asserted, that the missing records of Lancaster (1671- 
1717) were burned during the assault upon the town, July 
31, 1704, by Chevalier Beaucourt's army of French and 
Indians. This might seem plausible, for the meeting-house 
was then destroyed, and also the neighboring dwelling of 
the third John Houghton, a leading citizen who held various 
town offices. Weighing heavily against the surmise, how- 
ever, are the facts that no mention of such loss is made in 
the contemporary lists of property destroyed, and that the 
gap in town-meeting records extends twelve years later. 
The cause of the lamentable hiatus of forty-six years in the 
town-clerks' annals continues wrapt in mystery. 

REV. NATHANIEL NORCROSS. 

12, 340. In a letter from Mrs. Lucy Downing to her 
brother, John Winthrop, Jr., dated December 17, 1648, she 
gives this information respecting the first minister of the 
Nashaway Plantation: — 

Mr Norcross is flowen to Agamenticus, and there he sayth for his 
short experience he likes very well. 

[Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series V, Vol. i, p. 37.] 



ANNALS OF LANCASTER. 



In 1649-50, Rev. Nathaniel Norcross returned to England 
and there died, August, 1662, being then called "late of St. 
Dunstans in the East-minster." He was born in England, 
about 1618, the son of Jeremiah. 

DESCRIPTION OF NASHAWAY. 

17. In a " Briefe Discription of New England," attribu- 
ted to Samuel Maverick, occurs mention of the Nashaway 
Plantation. This manuscript was discovered in the British 
Museum in 1884, and was printed in full in the New England 
Historical and Genealogical Register for January, 1885. It 
is not dated, but was written not far from 1653, when the 
name Lancaster was given to the settlement. 

About ten or twelve miles aboue these Two Townes [Concord and 
Sudbury] is a CountreyTowne called Nashoway, first begun for Love of 
the Indians' Trade, but since the ffertility of y^ Soyle and pleasantness 
of the Riuer hath invited many more. There is excellent Salmon and 
Trout. 

A letter written by John Eliot in 1650, found in the Hun- 
terian Museum of the Glasgow University, among descrip- 
tions of other New England localities, says: — 

West from Sudbury 16 myles lyeth Nashaway, inland, who want a 
Minister. 

WATANANOCK. 

33. The Nashaway River had another title among the 
Indians. Most long rivers were given by the aborigines dif- 
ferent names in different portions of their courses, just as 
the white men at a later period called the stream now known 
as the Nashua, "Lancaster River," "Groton River," or "Har- 
vard River," according to their own residence. In Colonial 
Records IV, part II, p. 569, it is called "Nashaway or IVata- 
nanock River." 

NASHAWAY SACHEMS. 

38,98,117 133. The earliest known sachem of the 
Nashaways appears in New England history under the 
names: Showanon, Sholan, Shaumauvv, Shoniow, Nasho- 
wanon, Nashacowan and Nashoonon; the number of his 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



aliases being indicative of his high renown. His home was 
upon a slight elevation between the two Washacum lakes. 
His immediate successor — November, 1654 — was his neph- 
ew, Matthew, whose Indian name does not appear. Both 
Sholan and Matthew were firm friends of their white neigh- 
bors and of John Eliot. Upon the death of Matthew, at 
some unknown date before 1675, Shoshanim was elected 
sachem. He was known by the English as Sagamore Sam, 
and also bore the aliases Uskattuhgun and Upchattuck. 
Rivaling him in savage arts, tribal influence and hatred of 
the white man, was the Nashaway warrior One-eyed John, 
alias Monoco, alias Apequinash. Shoshanim and Monoco 
were hung at Boston, September 22, 1676. In one of his 
diaries, Increase Mather records this fact as follows: 

Sep. 22. This day Sagamore Sam was hanged at Boston. And the 
sick Englishman that should have been executed the last Week (whose 
name was Goble) was hanged with him. It seems a mad woman got 
away the rope which should have hanged the English Man, wherefore 
he was hanged with the very same rope w'' had hanged the Indian just 
before. The same day 3 other Indians hanged, viz the Sagamore of 
Quaboag, one eyed John and Jethro. They were betrayed into the 
hands of the English by Indians. 

[Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings for January, igoo.] 

The chief of the small remnant of the Nashaway tribe 
that survived King Philip's war was probably the noted 
Christian Indian, Ouanapaug, whose aliases were: Quana- 
pohit, Quenepenet, James Wiser and James Rumneymarsh. 
In 1670, he deeded lands at Washacum to John Prescott, 
calling himself "of Weshakim," but later was resident at 
Natick. The last sagamore whose name appears in local 
story was George Tahanto, who, in 1701, deeded the rem- 
nant of the Nashaway lands to the Lancaster proprietors. 
He is called Sholan's nephew. 

WATAQUADOCK. 

42. A hill, a pond and a brook in Brimfield also bear 
the name Wataquadock, by which the great ridge which 
bounds the Nashaway valley on the east has ever been 
known. 



ANNALS OF LANCASTER, 



IRON WORKS. 

49. Iron ore was known to exist in the Nashaway 
valley prior to the purchase of the township from Sholan. 
John VVinthrop, Jr., in "Considerations about Iron Works," 
1644, speaking of the Braintree ore, says: 

There is of the same sort at severall places — neere Greeneharbour 
\_Marshfield'\, at Nashaway, at Cohasset, at Woburne, and many other 
places. [Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc, 2d s., viii, 14.] 

The earliest mention of the Prescott bloomary found is 
in deeds of the third John Prescott to his son in 1748: 

land on which said Prescott'sy^r^^ stands and bounded south- 
east on y^ highway lately laid out as it is now marked. 

land lying on a Brook called Prescott's Meadow Brook near 

where it runs inio the Intervale ner y" Iron Mine. 

[Worcester Registry, Vol. 28, 295-299.] 

HIGHWAYS. 

61. The proprietors claimed and exercised ownership 
of the highways throughout the territory originally granted 
for the Nashaway Plantation until half a dozen towns had 
been carved from it, and troublesome questions often arose 
because of the divided jurisdiction. The following from the 
records of the Proprietary dates the surrender to the corpor- 
ations of the title to the thoroughfares then existing: 

lygi. February 7, Voted that the proprietors relinquish to the 

several Towns within the Bound of old Lancaster all their Right to the 
Rodes in the Respective towns and that each Town have a Right to dis- 
pose of and alter said Roades within their limits, not to injure the pub- 
lick. 

JURORS. 

68. Lancaster was required to furnish two jurors for the 
county courts annually. The grand juror was paid three 
shillings per day, and the juror for special courts four shil- 
lings. They were chosen by the voters until 1774, when a 
special act of Parliament empowered the sheriffs to select 
them. An example of a warrant and sundry returns follow: 

To the Constable of Lancaster. You are required to call your free- 
men together to choose one able and meet person to serve on the Jury 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



for Trials at the next County Court to be holden at Cambridge the 4"* 
day of the next mo. also you are to warn your grand jury man to attend 
the said Court, and hereof you are to make a true return under your 
hands, not to faile. 

Dat. 12"', 10"', 1659. Thomas Daj^fokth^ J^ecor^/er 

Goodman John Moore is chosen and warned to attend the Court 
accordinge to direction by y'^ warrant by 

Oct. 4"'- Jacob ffarer Cotistable"^^ 

1663. April 2 Henry Kerly is fined five shill. for not appearing 

on the jury. 

17.7. 1672 Laurence Waters is chosen by the freemen to serve 

on the jurie of tryalls and Richard Wheeler to attend the Court on the 
grand jurie as witnesseth: 

Jo. More, Constable of Lancaster. 

20 .7 . 1673 Jacob ffarer Sen"^. is chosen to serve on the jurie of 

tryalls and John More grand jurie man warned according to this sum- 
mons as witnesseth: Jonathan Prescott Constable 

28. 1 . 1673/4 John Prescott Sen. is chose grand jurie man, and 

Sariant Henry Kerly for the jurie of tryalls. . . .by 

Jonathan Prescott, Constable of Lancaster 

20. 1 . 1674/5 John Prescott Sen. is chosen grand Juryman and 

Beniamin Allen for the jury of tryalls this r* 2mo. 1675, ^s witnesseth. 

Roger Sumner Constable 

1684 In answer to this warant the former grand juror was 

warned John Prescott is chose for the yere insuing to sarve in the grand 
jury. Jamse Houghton is chosen for the jury of tryalls. John More 
Sen. chose to answare for not having a pound. 

30 dy. March 1684/5 Thomas Sayer Constable 

[Middlesex Court Files.] 

CHESQUONOPOG. 

70. Chesquonopog Pond, mentioned as early as 1660 in 
town records, is proved by a deed of Samuel Bennett to his 
son Joseph, May i, 1724 — conveying lands "near to a place 
called Chesquonapoage Hill " and "Asiatic" or "Assoatetick 
Hill" — to be probably what is known as White's Pond. 

HENRY KERLEY. 
80. Henry Karley of Lankester beinge a howse houlder and aboue 
24 years of age and of good estate and in full coiriunion, desiers the lib- 
ertie of freedome by this Court. This I afirme 

Simon Willard. 
Admitted to freedom 14 May '68. E. R. Sec. 

[Massachusettes -Archives.] 



10 ANNALS OF LANCASTER, 

GEORGE HILL. 

82-3. George Hill was so called by the first planters 
in the Nashaway valley, appearing in proprietors' records as 
early as 1664 in an assignment of land — "ten acors lying on 
the top of George Hill" — to Daniel Gains the tailor. It is 
often asserted that the name was derived from that of an 
Indian who had a wigwam there, and Joseph Willard, Esq., 
(1826) mentions this, in a note to page 6 of his History of 
Lancaster, as traditionary. Rev. Abijah P. Marvin ( 1879), 
in his History of Lancaster, pages 38 and 65, definitely 
locates an "Indian Camp" on the southern slope of the hill, 
and even publishes a view of the place, alleging that it is the 
site of the first trucking-house. But the Middlesex Registry 
of Deeds gives abundant proof that the trucking-house was 
a quarter of a mile north of the position pictured, and on 
the eastern slope of the hill. To George Tahanto, the last 
known sachem of the Nashaway tribe, the honor of giving 
name to the hill is often attributed; but as Tahanto does not 
appear in history until 1701, and was, if not unborn, proba- 
bly a minor in 1664, the title of Lancaster's chief elevation 
may have its origin from a much less romantic source. In 
fact, the name was presumably given to the locality because 
George Adams, a glover and trader of Watertown — in the 
earliest assignment of lands here made to the pioneers by 
Stephen Day, as early as 1645 — received twenty acres for 
his home lot on the eastern slope of the hill, bounded north 
by the trucking-house lot which John Prescott bought of 
John Cowdall in 1647. Adams soon got into serious trouble 
by illicit trade with the Indians, as told in the court order 
given below, and his unimproved home lot was reconveyed 
by the proprietors to Jonas Fairbank. In 1670, however, 
Adams laid claim to the land and the town appeased him by 
a grant of sixty acres near "VVashacome." There he built 
and lived, apparently a genial neighbor to the Indians. 

In ans'. to the peticon of George Addams, the Courte finding that 
he was found guilty of selling two gunnes and strong waters [to the In- 
dians] having nothing to satisfy the lawe, determined that he shall be 
severely whipt the next lecture day at Boston, and then discharged the 
prison. May 13, 1653. . [Mass. Records, IV, part 1, 133.] 



MASSACHUSETTS. n 



In ans^ to the petition of George and Francis Addams, humbly de- 
siring the favour of this Court to confirm vnto them a certain parcell of 
vpland and meadow seuerall yeares since given to them by Shoniow 
Sachem of Nashaway, deceased, called by the name of VVashaame Hill, 
being about the quantity of two hundred acres, which land hath, since 
the death of the sajd Shoniow, binn confirmed to them by Matthew, his 
nephew, so called by the English, before the honoured Capt. Gookin, 
and since the sajd Matthews decease agam confirmed by Samuel now 
Sagamore of the place, and alike acknowledged the seventh of this 
instant May 1675, the Court judgeth it meet to grant the peticoners re- 
quest. [Mass. Records, Vol. V, 39.] 

WILLARD GARRISON. 

95-6. In the report of a committee upon the compen- 
sation petitioned for by the heirs of Major Simon Willard 
for losses during King Philip's war, one item among the 
claims allowed was: 

Expenses out of purse in repairing the house blown upzx Lancaster 

At the abandonment of Lancaster in March, 1676, all 
buildings that could serve as shelter for the savages were 
burned, or as in the case of this substantial garrison house 
of Cyprian Stevens, were destroyed by gunpowder, 

MOHAWK RAID. 

97. The " Maquas Wars" which, according to Daniel 
Gookin, broke the power of the Nashaway tribe, raged from 
1663 to 1669. The Mohawks, a warlike race and the heredi- 
tary foes of the Massachusetts Indians, in 1663/4 made a 
fierce raid eastward, overwhelmed the Connecticut River 
tribes and carried fire and slaughter even to the neighbor- 
hood of the Wachusett and Washacum strongholds: 

At a Council Called by the Gouernor and Dept. Gouernor and As- 
sembled together the 24th of November 1663. Whereas this Councill is 
Informed by Major Willard that the Mohawks are lately come downe 
and slaine seuerall of the Confederate Indians who are in confederacy 
with vs. It is Ordered that Major Willard be and hereby is betrusted 
with furnishing of y" said Confederate Indians with powder and shott 
proportionable not exceeding three barrells. E. R. s. 

So far as appears, this was all the assistance given b}' the 



12 ANNALS OF LANCASTER, 

white men to their copper-colored "Confederates." In the 
summer of 1669, an army of over six hundred warriors or- 
ganized from the Massachusetts tribes, under the leadership 
of Chickatawbut, sought revenge upon the Mohawks, assail- 
ing them in their own fastnesses. They found their foes not 
unprepared, but were at first victorious. Finally, through 
lack of ammunition and food they were forced to retreat, 
and were ambushed and routed with great slaughter, losing 
their chief sachem and many of their ablest warriors. From 
this time the "Confederate Indians" seem to have lost con- 
fidence in the neighborliness of their English allies, growing 
rapidly more and more dissatisfied, until at last they became 
the willing agents, and the victims, of Philip's wily schemes. 

LANCASTER MEN AT QUABAUG. 

98. Major Willard marched from Lancaster to the re- 
lief of Brookfield August 4, 1675, with Captain Parker of 
Groton and forty-six men, his original destination being "to 
look after some Indians to the westward of Lancaster and 
Groton," doubtless the Nashaways. With him were these 
Lancaster men in September at Quabaug: 

Jonathan Prescott. Daniel Gains. Thomas Beaman. 

John Uivoll. Ephraim Sawyer. William Kerley. 

Josiah White. Daniel Adams. 

MONOCO'S RAID. 

99. August 22 [1675] being the Lord's Day, the Indians about Lan- 
caster Killed a Man and his Wife and two Children in the afternoon 
exercise. [Increase Mather's A Brief History of the War with the Indians, 1676.] 

OUANAPAUG'S RELATION. 

100. James Quanapaug's Information — January 24, 
1676 — was taken down by two scribes, and their versions 
while agreeing in all essential particulars, differ greatly in 
phraseology. The "Relation" preserved in the Connecticut 
archives is the more complete report, and gives the passages 
quoted in The Early Records of Lancaster, as follows: 

but James [at the second towne] he came too met with John 

with one eye of Weshakum [a stout Captaine among them.] this man 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



13 



Knew James and said thou hast been with mee in the warr with the 
Mauhaks and I know thou art a valiant man and therefore none shall 
wrong thee nor kill thee here but they shall first kill me. Therefore 
abide at my wigwam and I will protect thee. So this man entertained 
him kindly, & protected him. Job his companion stayd at Pumham's 
wigwam wher his 3 children were kept; hee and Job aboad with these 
Indians severall dales & sometimes went forth to hunt deere not farr of 
& returned againe, hee labored to gaine what information hee could of 
their affayres, & was informed by Capt John [with one eye] his host 
& others said things, vizt. that Philip was quartered this winter within 

halfe a dayes iorny [north of?] fort Albany, that they had got 

and caried away all the corne at Pakuahooge & in the Nipmuck coun- 
try vnto their quarters, vpon wch they had lived this winter & vpon 
beefe & porke they had kild about Quaboage, & venison of wch there 
is great store in those parts & by reason of y'' deep snow y"' being [mid 
thigh deep] it is easy to kill deare without gunns, hee saith that ere 
long, when y"^ beefe & porke & deere is spent & gon, that they will be in 
want of corne, but they intend then to com downe vpon the English 
townes, of Lancaster Marlborow Groton, & particulely they intend first 
to cut off Lancaster bridge and then say they there can no releef com to 
you from Boston nor the people cannot escape & their they hope to 
have corne enough 

THE MASSACRE OF 1676. 

102. Rev. Increase Mather's A Brief History of the 
War with the Indians in New England, 1676, was written 
before William Hubbard's Narrative appeared, and gives 
some information respecting the destruction of Lancaster 
not found in the latter: 

also the Indian spies declared, that there was a designe, within 

such a time to burn Lancaster, which came to pass both as to time and 
manner accordingly. 

For upon the loth of February some hundreds of Indians fell upon 
Lancaster, burnt many of the Houses, kill'd and took Captive above 
forty persons. Mr Roivlandson (the faithful pastor of the Church there) 
had his House, Goods, Books all burned; his Wife, and all his Children 
led away Captive before the Enemy. Himself (as God would have it) 
was not at home, whence his own person was delivered, which otherwise 
(without a Miracle) would have been endangered. Eight men lost their 
lives, and were stripped naked by the Indians, because they ventured 
their lives to save Mrs Rowlandson. As this good Man returned home 
(having been at Boston to intercede with the Council that something 
might be done for the safety of that place) he saw his Laiicaster in 
flames, and his own house burnt down, not having heard of it till his 



14 ANNALS OF LANCASTER, 

eyes beheld it, and Knew not what was become of the Wife of his 
bosome, and Children of his Bowels 

Rev. Cotton Mather in the seventh book of his Magualia 
Christi Americana gives a similar account, generally using 
Hubbard's words, and adding nothing of interest. Hub- 
bard's Narrative agrees so entirel)^ with the reports of the 
Indian spies. Job and Quanapohit, and with all other con- 
temporary records, that it may be accepted as a complete 
confutation of the tradition that Philip led the assault upon 
Lancaster. This persistent myth probably had its origin in 
the unhistoric statement made by Rev. Timothy Harrington 
in his Century Sermon, 1753: 

But Philip with the rest confessed by themselves after the peace to 
be 1500, marched for Lancaster, in which there were then above fifty 
families — And on the loth of February, 1676, assaulted in five distinct 
bodies and places 

The Lancaster historians, Joseph Willard and Rev. Abijah 
P. Marvin, accepted this dubious tradition without question, 
and Rev. Peter Whitney, John W. Barber, John Langdon 
Sibley, and more recentl}% even John Fiske — in his Dutch 
and Quaker Colonies in America, ii, 60 — have perpetuated 
it. But at the date of the destruction of Lancaster, Philip 
and his forces were either in their winter quarters "half a 
day's journey north of Fort Albany," as Quanapohit's Rela- 
tion of January 24, 1675-6, tells us, or were retreating through 
the woods towards Squakeag after a disastrous fight with the 
Mohawks. Mrs. Rowlandsori, in her Narrative, relates that 
Robert Pepper, a fellow prisoner who had been captured 
September 3, 1675, in Captain Beer's fight, told her on Feb- 
ruary 12, at Menamesset, that he had been taken "almost as 
far as Albany to see King Philip," and had "very lately" re- 
turned thence. She also records that she did not see Philip 
until March 8. when she reached Coasset, on the west bank 
of the Connecticut River, a little north of the boundary line 
between Vermont and Massachusetts. The following letter 
from Sir Edmund Andros, governor of New York, to the 
Connecticut government, gives similar information; 



MASSACHUSETTS. 15 



N. YoKCK, y"^ e*"" of Jan". i675[6]. 
Hon'''^ S''. Thow I have nott yett had sutable returnes, if any at all, 
I cannott however obmit my part. This is to acquaint you that late last 
night I had inteligence that Philip & 4 or 500 North Indians, fighting 
men, were come 40 or 50 miles of Albany northerly, where they talke of 
continuing this winter; that Phi: is sick, and one Sahamoschuha, the 
Comander in Cheef. Whereupon I have despatched orders theither. 

This accompt to yrseife, or if yu think fitt, to your Assistances; but 
I thinck is needles to be published to the whole comonalty. from 

Your Humble Servant E. Andross. 

[Connecticut Colonial Records, II, 397.] 

Under date of February 8, 1676, a letter to London, 
printed by Samuel G. Drake in The Old Indian Chronicle, p. 
99, confirms these statements as to Philip's winter quarters, 
and Mr Drake locates him at "Scatacook" on the east bank 
of the Hudson, about twenty miles above Albany. Philip 
was supposed to be seeking an alliance with the Mohawks 
against the Massachusetts Colony, and purchasing powder 
and arms of the Dutch. Much more explicit is the state- 
ment of Sir Edmund Andros, in "A Short Account of the 
Generall Concerns of New Yorke from October 1674 to No- 
vember 1677," to be found printed in Documents relative to 
the Colonial History of New York, HI, 255: 

In November and December Phillip and other Indyans about a 

thousand in two partys armed, went up into the country, and came within 
about forty miles of Albany, of wh'^'' notice by our Indyans to y" com- 
ander att Albany and by him expresse to the Governm* att New Yorke, 
the rivers all frozen. The Governour imediately dispatched reitterated 
orders to y" comander for said Phillips &c to remove, if not effected 
afore y^ receit of said Orders, and sent an Expresse with Letters and 
Ample Instructions to Connecticutt, desiring Liberty for our forces. 
Christians or Indyans, to pursue such y'^ Enemys of said Connecticutt 
into their parts as occasion &c. and y* like after to Boston; but being 
denied, and the River opening unexpectedly the beginning of ffebruary 
1675/6. he took y" first opportunity to goe up with an additional force 
and six sloops to Albany, and found att his arrivall aboutt three hundred 
Maquaas Souldiers in town returned y" Evening afore from y'= pursuite 
of Philip and a party of five hundred with him whom they had beaten, 
having some prisoners and the crowns, or hayre and skinne of the head, 
of others they had killed; Att their setting out the Commander had fur- 
nished the whole party with store of Ammunicon, and all sorts of arms 
and necessarys they wanted, and received their old Sachems wives and 
children into the town; but now upon our neighbour's refusall the Gov- 



l6 ANNALS OF LANCASTER, 



ern'' was put to a further greater charge, as well as authority to stop 
their prosecuting said Indyans into our Neighbour's Colony, which would 
else have proved of a farre worse consequence; 

Andros' letter to Connecticut referred to in this docu- 
ment was dated February 4, 1676, and the reply to it — 
printed in Connecticut Colonial Records, II, p. 406, was sent 
February 10, the very day of the destruction of Lancaster. 
The Indian forces assailing Lancaster probably numbered 
about four hundred warriors, led by five sachems: Sagamore 
Sam and Monoco of the Nashaways, Muttaump alias Mali- 
ompe of the Quabaugs, Matoonas of the Nipnets, and Quan- 
opin of the Narragansetts. Samuel Sewall in his Diary, I, 22, 
calls Maliompe the "general at Lancaster." Hubbard's lan- 
guage, as well as that of Quanapohit, apparently proves that 
the historians who include the Nashaway tribe among the 
Nipnet Indians, are in error. 

THE COUNCIL'S LETTER TO MAJOR WILLARD. 

104. A letter of the Council dated February ii, 1675/6, 
addressed to Major Simon Willard, follows. Major Willard 
had shown marked ability in his conduct of military opera- 
tions, so outranking his associate ofificers in this respect that 
the colonial government proposed to place him in supreme 
command of its forces: 

Sir. The Council received your letter and are sorry for your excuse 
for not coming to the Council by reason of the state of Lancaster, which 
we desire you to endeavour to the utmost of your power to relieve and 
succour. We are using our best endeavours to prepare more forces to 
send to distress the enemy. You shall hear more from us speedily, and 
in the interim we desire you to be in readiness if you should have a full 
command over the forces to be sent forth from the Colony. 

[Mass. Archives.] E- R- Secy. 

SISTER DREW. 

104, 114. The singular translation of Mrs. Hannah 
(White) Divoll to "Sister Drew," which occurs in the Lon- 
don pamphlet, News from New England, is rivaled by 
Thomas Cobbett's version of the same name to Diuens. 
Both Joseph Willard, Esq., and Rev. Abijah P. Marvin, how- 



MASSACHUSETTS. 17 



ever, in their histories adopted the Drew family into Lancas- 
ter story without any qualms, and even evolved a Mr. Drew 
to join with the party which went to Boston for aid against 
the impending assault of the savages! [See Willard's His- 
tory of Lancaster, p. 39, and Marvin's Lancaster, pp. 96, 98, 
107, 108 and 112.] 

THOMAS ROWLANDSON. 

104. Thomas Rowlandson, says Joseph Willard on 
page 39 of his History of Lancaster, "was brother to the 
clergyman," and Mr. Marvin perpetuates the same error on 
pages 96 and 106 of his history of the town. Rev. Joseph 
Rowlandson had a brother, Thomas, who lived in Salisbury 
and died there in July, 1682. It was his son, Thomas junior, 
who perished at Lancaster. Even the careful John Langdon 
Sibley adopts Willard's error, on page 319, volume i, of his 
Harvard Graduates. 

JOHN KETTEL. 

105. Rev. Timothy Harrington, in a foot-note to his 
Century Sermon, includes in his list of the slain at the mas- 
sacre of the Rowlandson garrison, "John Kettle and two 
sons." On a memorial erected in Stow, 1883, to mark the 
supposed site of a John Ketteli's cabin — he being one of the 
first settlers of that town — it is recorded that " he was killed 
by the Indians Feb. 10, 1676." Mr. Harrington has been 
deemed worthy of credence in most of his statements regard- 
ing the destruction of Lancaster, for they were written only 
seventy-seven years after the event, and must have been 
based upon the recollections of survivors of that bloody epi- 
sode living in his day. Notable among such survivors were: 
Caleb Sawyer, who was seventeen years of age when the 
savage followers of Sagamore Sam raged around his father's 
stockaded garrison, and Lieutenant Jabez Fairbank, then a 
child of five years, who lost his father on that eventful day. 
Moreover, in the congregation under Mr. Harrington's min- 
istrations were scores of the children of those who suffered 
by savage tomahawk or torch during Philip's war. But Rev. 
George F. Clark, historian of Stow, in the New England His- 



ANNALS OF LANCASTER, 



torical and Genealogical Register for October, 1896, has 
apparently proved by documentary evidence that John Ket- 
tell and his sons John and Joseph survived the massacre of 
1676 several years. 

Kettell owned no land in Lancaster, but leased a farm 
near Walnut Swamp belonging to Abraham Joslin. He has 
always been supposed to be that John of Sudbury, son of 
Richard of Charlestown, born in 1639, who married first 
Sarah Goodnow, and second, Elizabeth Ward. Another 
John Kettell, an older man, owned three hundred acres in 
Stow where the above named memorial with its questionable 
inscription stands. But this John died in Salem, 1685. Was 
Rev. Timothy Harrington misinformed as to the tragic fate 
of the Kettell family, or was there a third of the name? 
When Mrs. Elizabeth Kettell and two daughters were cap- 
tured, how did the male members of the family escape? 

Probably Henry Kerley, Jr., should be classed among 
those slain. The captive "child Kerley, name and age un- 
known," was undoubtedly Elizabeth, the oldest daughter. 
The birth of this daughter is not a matter of record, but she 
is mentioned in her father's will, and was that Elizabeth who 
in 1686 married Daniel How of Marlborough. Mary and 
Hannah Kerly and Joseph Joslin finally escaped from cap- 
tivity or were ransomed. 

SOLDIERS IN MASSACRE ? 

106. On September 8, 1675, the Council ordered fifty 
men to be detailed from Norfolk and Middlesex counties for 
assignment among the garrisons of Lancaster, Groton and 
Dunstable. At the Lancaster garrisons, January 25, 1676, 
there were fourteen soldiers on duty from other places, as 
shown by Treasurer Hull's accounts. (See Rev. George M. 
Bodge's Soldiers in King Philip's War, p. 301.) It is prob- 
able that some of these suffered in the massacre of February 
10, adding to the number of anonymous casualties. 

RANSOM OF CAPTIVES 

112, 114. 1676. May 3. Election Day. This day Mrs. Row- 
landson was, by a wonderful hand of Providence, returned to her hus- 



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band after she had been absent eleven weeks in the hands of the 
Indians. [Increase Mather's Diary.] 

The Lord from Heaven smiled upon us at this time: for the day be- 
fore this Thanksgiving, as also the day after, he gave us to hear more of 
our Captives returned; particularly Mr Rowlandson's Children are now- 
brought in as answers of Prayer. It is not a small mercy that the mother 
and children (only one childe was. killed when the others were taken) 
should all of them be saved alive. 

[Increase Mather's Brief History.] 

A petition of John Hoar to the General Court, May 24, 
1682, discloses the fact that in 1665 he had been imprisoned, 
fined fifty pounds, put under bonds, and disbarred from 
pleading as a lawyer. After stating that during Philip's 
War, by order of Major VVillard, Major Gookin, Mr. Eliot 
and the Concord selectmen, he had charge of about sixty 
Nashoby Indians, and built a fort for them costing forty 
pounds and endangered his life in their behalf, he adds: 

I also made severall journeys to Lancaster and to the Counsell, and 
two journeys to the Indians to redeme Mrs Rowlinson and Goodwife 
Kettle, with two horses and provisions, and gave the Sagamores consid- 
erably of my owne estate above whatever I received of the Country, and 
by the favor of God obtained of them that they woald fight no more but 
in their own defence. Seth Perry also had severall things of mee to give 
the Indians that he might escape with his life. 

CAPTAIN HINCHMAN'S CAPTURES AT WASHACUM. 

116. June 7, 1676. Our Forces now abroad came upon a party of 
Indians not far from Lancaster, and killed some of them, and took nine 
and twenty of them Captive. [Increase Mather's Brief History.] 

Ours by direction of Tom Dublet (a Natick Indian who was a little 

before employed in the redemption of the captives) following tracks of 

Indians, came upon a party of the enemy fishing in Weshacom ponds, 

towards Lancaster, of whom they killed seven and took twenty-nine 

mostly women and children; yet belonging to considerable persons it 

made the success the more to be valued. 

[William Hubbard's Narrative.] 

June 7. The army abroad took twenty-nine Indians and brought 
them to Boston. One was that squaw that domineered over Mrs. Row- 
landson. [Increase Mather's Diary.] 

Among the captives thus taken by Captain Daniel Hinch- 
man at Washacum were the wife and children of Shoshanim 
and the wife of Muttaump. They were sold into slavery in 



20 ANNALS OF LANCASTER, 

the West Indies. Weetamoo, squaw of Quanopin and sister- 
in-law of Philip, referred to by Mather as "domineering over 
Mrs. Rowlandson," was not captured at VVashacum, but was 
drowned in August at Mattapoisett. Mrs. Rowlandson was 
Weetamoo's maid, Quanopin having bought her from her 
captor, a warrior of his own tribe. 

REV. JOSEPH ROWLANDSON. 

119, 301, 340. At a town meeting April 7, 1677, the Committee 
formerly chosen to inquire after an able minister for the town having 
advised and directed the town to the Rev. Mr. Rowlandson, lately a 
minister of the church of Lancaster in the Bay Colony, and Mr. Row- 
landson being by the invitation of the said Committee come to give them 
a visit, the town being very desirous of Mr. Rowlandson's settling 
amongst them in the work of the ministry, in order to his encourage- 
ment thereunto they voted and granted to allow him an hundred pounds 
per year and the free use of all the parsonage lands and houses during 
his continuance amongst them in the work of the ministry if he shall 
come and settle amongst them. And for his further encouragement (in 
order for his procuring of a settled habitation in the town) the town 
granted moreover to give him one hundred pounds, and to pay the same 
within five years after his coming and settling amongst us, after the rate 
of twenty pounds per year. [Wethersfield Records.] 

From this record it appears that Mr. Rowlandson was not 
settled as colleague to the Rev. Gershom Bulkeley, although 
all Lancaster's historians and John Langdon Sibley have so 
alleged. Mr. Bulkeley had asked and received dismission 
before Mr. J^owlandson's settlement in Wethersfield, and had 
removed to Glastonbury where he practiced as a physician. 

Nov. 28, 1678 it was agreed and voted that Mrs. Rowlandson 

shall have allowed for this present year, Mr. Rowlandson's whole year's 
rate, and what was formerly promised, — which in all will amount to six 
score pounds, and from henceforth the Town shall allow the said Mrs. 
Rowlandson thirty pounds per year so long as she shall remain a widow 
amongst us. [Wethersfield Records.] 

TOWN-MEETING RECORD, 1686. 

124. The following memorandum of the action of a 
town-meeting (proprietors') in the hand-writing of John 
Houghton, was found upon a scrap of paper in 1885: 



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Town Meeting 
Monday the 16 day of August 1686 the town met at the meeting 
house. 3ly. Seueral of the Inhabitance on the east side the Riuer pro- 
pounded for a way to Goodman Prescotts Corne mill to ly ouer the Riuer 
at the Scar. Goodman Prescott told the town that if they would Grant 
him about twenty acres of Land upon the mill Brook Lying aboue his 
own Land for his convaniancy of preserving water against a time of 
drought he was willing the town should haue a way to the mill throw his 
Land. John Prescott hath a piece of Land laid out to him by a Commit- 
tee appoynted to that end to Lay out a highway from the Scar to the 
mill threw John Prescott's Land, and the Land allowed him in Lew of it 
Lyeth on the mill Brook near to the South Meadow bounded north and 
east by his own Land and South and Southeast by Common Land. A 
discription whareof was Red before the town the 6th of February 1687/8, 
and ordered to be Recorded. 

Recorded this gth of February 1687/8. pr me 

John Houghton Recorder 

[Also recorded in Middlesex Registry, XII, 117.] 

The northern portion of High Street in Clinton occupies 
in part the location of this way to the Prescott mill, which 
remained in use until 1742, when it was abandoned and the 
bridge built at the South Lancaster mills, on the site now 
used. 

LANCASTER PROPRIETORS, 1688. 

127. Among the papers of Jonathan Wilder, Joseph 
Willard found an ancient memorandum with the caption: 
"List of those who subscribed to the minister's house in 
1688." This heading, and the quaint phrase in which the 
simple legal transfer of the new parsonage to Mr. Whiting 
by the town-meeting of January 3, 1690, was recorded, ("And 
the town the same time went out of the house and gave Mr 
John Whiting possession thereof"), seem to have strangely 
misled one of our historians. On page 160 of Rev. Abijah 
P. Marvin's History of Lancaster the episode is curiously 
expanded into: — a general subscription; the planting of 
many shade-trees; a "red letter" day with "a large gather- 
ing of parents and children;" "a feast of fat things and the 
voice of song and prayer," etc.; in short, into a combination 
of picnic, house-warming, prayer-meeting and donation 
party, neither substantiated by any evidence nor congruous 



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with the habitude of the times or with local conditions. 
There was no incentive to popular subscription, since colon- 
ial law compelled the town to provide a habitation for their 
minister or compound with him, "allowing him a competent 
and reasonable sum to provide for himself so long as he shall 
continue with them." The fact that this list includes the 
names of several who had at that date been long in their 
graves, and of others non-resident, proves that it is only the 
constable's rate-list, naming all estates liable for the support 
of the ministry in 1688. The list is here given, the names of 
persons deceased in 1688 being marked *, and those of non- 
residents, so far as known, f : 



John Moore Sen' 
Thos Sawyer Sen'. 
Thos Wilder 
Sergt John Moore 
Ralph Houghton 
Josiah White 
John Sawyer 
John Roper* 
John Warner 
George Newby 
George Hewes 
Daniel Hudson 
Richard West 
John Priest 
James Atherton 
Nath' Wilder 
John Rugg Sen. 
John Rugg Jr. 
Eph'" Roper* 
Peter Joslin 
John Bush 
Josiah Whitcomb 
Nath'. Wilson 
John Glazier 
James Houghton 
Henry Willard 
Joshua Atherton 



Zebediah Wheeler 
John Wilder 
Gamaliel Beman 
John Beman 
James Snow 
John Houghton 
John Willard 
Benjamin Willard 
Jeremiah Wilson 
John Prescott 
Joseph Houghton 
Jonas Houghton 
Robt Houghton 
John Hinds 
Widow Houghton 
Thos Sawyer Jr. 
Caleb Sawyer 
Abraham Wheeler 
Isaac Wheeler 
John Hutson 
Wm Hutson 
Joseph Waters 
Cyprian Stevens 
Samuel Snmner 
Christopher Lewis 
Isaac Lewis 



Matthew Stone 
Arthur Tooker 
Samuel Wheeler 
Simon Gates"!" 
Barachiah Lewis! 
Nathi Walest 
Jona. Willard"!" 
Lawrence Waters* 
Edmund Parker"!" 
Thos Swiftt 
Jona Prescottt 
John Rigbyt 
Capt Henry Carleyt 
Archelaus Courser* 
Daniel Gaines* 
John Bailey"!" 
Dea. Roger Sumnerf 
Nath' Joslint 
Mordecai McLoad* 
Henry Joslint 
Jerem'' Rogers* 
John Divoll* 
George Adamsf 
Benj Allen* 
Mr. Geo. Robinsont 
John Pope! 



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23 



GARRISONS OF LANCASTER IN 1692. 
The Scttlmt of the Garrison at Lancaster, i8th. /. i6gi-2. 



i) Josiah White and 

Thomas Pope 

James Holton [Houghton] 

Joseph Holton 

John Hudson 

James Hudson 

James Atherton 

Matthew Stone 

and Two Souldiers. 10 men 
2) Philip Goss and with him 

John More 

John Bemon 

Peter Joslin 
-.» Jonathan Whitcomb 

George Hues 
--jCyprian Stevens 

Jno. Prescott with 

their familys. g men. 

Thomas Sawyer and Sawyer's 
men. 

Abraham Wheeler 

Isaac Wheeler 

Caleb Sawyer Sen"". 

Thomas Sawyer 

Nathaniel Sawyer 

Jonathan Fairbanks 

James Frost 

John Darbyshire with 

their familys. 11 men. 



3- 



74 men 



(4) Nathaniel Wilder and 

John Sawyer 

Jabez Fairbanks 

Mr Samuel Carter 

Mr John Whiting 

with their familys. 8 itien. 
(15) Ephraim Roper and 

Jno Rugg 

Jno Rugg Jun\ 

Joseph Rugg. 4 men 

Daniel Hudson and his two sons 
J. men must repair to them in 
[time] of danger. At present 
they may continue in their own 
house it having a good Fort. 

(6) Lieut Thomas Wilder and 
John Hinds 

Robert Holton 

James Snow 

Jonas Holton 

Jeremiah Wilson 

Jno. Holton 

Jno. Wilder 

Gamaliel Bemon 

with their familys. /j men. 

(7) Ensign John More 
Nathaniel Wilson 
Richard West 
Josiah Whitcomb 

and their familys. 8 tneti. 

(8) Henry Willard and 
Joshua Atherton 
John Priest 

John Warner and 
Two Souldiers, with their familys 
8 men. 



The above list is from a manuscript found by John Far- 
mer, Esq. It was printed in the New England Historical 
and Genealogical Register for October, 1889. Garrison No. 
I was upon the east side of the Neck, probably where Nathan- 
iel C. Hawkins now lives. No. 2 was near the Sprague 



24 ANNALS OF LANCASTER, 

bridge; Philip Goss lived on the site of the Rowlandson gar- 
rison of 1676, opposite the Middle Cemetery, and Cyprian 
Stevens on the site of the Major Simon Willard garrison in 
the grounds occupied by the late Caleb T. Symmes, Esq. 
No. 3 was in South Lancaster, Thomas Sawyer owning the 
lands on the west side of the main street, between the Nar- 
row Lane and Flagg Street. His house probably stood near 
the site of the dwelling on the south corner of Prescott and 
Main Streets. No. 4 was upon George Hill, near the site of 
the Symonds and King trucking-house, the first home of 
John Prescott, now occupied by the Maplehurst stables. 
Rev. John Whiting's residence was in the grounds now occu- 
pied by Eugene V. R. Thayer. No 5 was upon the hill just 
above and west from the George Hill school-house, perhaps 
on the site of the house now standing there. Daniel Hudson 
lived where the Thayer farm-house, now occupied by William 
A. Kilbourn, stands. Hudson was a brickmaker, and dug 
clay for his bricks beside the highway a few rods east of the 
bridge over Roper's Brook. Both Roper's and Hudson's 
houses were burned by the Indians in the surprise of Sep- 
tember II, 1797. Some graves in the field, a few rods north 
from the school-house, visible in the early part of this cen- 
tury, were supposed to be those of victims in the Roper gar- 
rison massacre. No. 6 was upon the Old Common in the 
grounds now owned by the state. No. 7 was in what is now 
Bolton, on the east slope of Wataquadock, but its exact loca- 
tion is not known. No. 8 was at Still River village, and in- 
cluded the house now standing owned by William B. Haskell. 

MRS. DOCTRESS WHITCOMB AND JONAS 
FAIRBANKS. 

133. Mrs. Mary (Hayward) Fairbank married David 
Whitcomb May 31, 1700. She claimed the acquisition dur- 
ing her captivity of valuable knowledge about Indian reme- 
dies and the medicinal virtues of plants, and became well 
known around Lancaster as " Mrs. Doctress Whitcomb*" 

The author of the Fairbanks Family in America denies 
that Jonathan had two children slain in the massacre of 



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25 



September ii, 1697, or that he had a son Jonas. Rev. Tim- 
othy Harrington explicitly states that among those killed 
that day were "Jonathan Fairbank and two children." A 
prominent parishioner of Mr. Harrington's, living in 1753, 
when his Century Sermon was delivered, was Colonel Oliver 
Wilder, who married Mary, the youngest daughter of Jona- 
than Fairbank. He would hardly have permitted an impor- 
tant error concerning his wife's family to go uncorrected. A 
gravestone records that Jonathan and his daughter Grace 
"deceased September the 11, 1697;" beside this stands a 
stone inscribed "Jonas Fairbanks who deceased September 
the 13th, 1697." This Jonas, the genealogist alleges, was 
probably a brother of Jonathan, a resident of Watertown, 
aged twenty-four, but no proof of this supposition is found. 
The births of Jonathan's children are nowhere recorded. 

REV. JOHN JONES. 

137, 340. Rev. John Jones must have served several 
months in the Lancaster pulpit, for the province treasurer's 
accounts, 1697/8, contain this entry; 

Paid Mr John Jones whom y*' Town of Lancaster have procured to 
be their minister (upon consideration of the damage lately done by the 
Indians unto sd. Town, their minister being slain, for their encouragem' 
and enabling sd Town to gett another) allowed by y'^ General Assembly. 
20^ [Province Laws, VII.] 

BEAUCOURT'S ASSAULT. 

Boston ult. July 1704. 
146. Sr. This morning before day a considerable number of the 
enemy set upon Lancaster in the county of Middlesex, where besides the 
inhabitants I have a company of musqueteers, and presuming upon the 
notice given by the French deserter at Deerfield that the enemy would 
give mee the go-by there, I had ordered two hundred men more to sd 
Lancaster on Saturday evening, who I hope will be there this evening, 
and God can give us success if he pleases. That I pray of you now is 
imediately to direct your forces upon the frontiers to march into the 
woods upon their track and lay wayte for them in their return; they can- 
not be above 200 men so that the force at Hadly must needs be enough 
to meet them. I have no notice but of an half hour of their assault of 
the first garrison next the woods [Nathaniel Wilder's]; what impression 
they may make I know not, but have within the line the great towns of 
Concord and Sudbury all ready to march and gone before this time; but 



26 ANNALS OF LANCASTER, 

doubt not they may be intercepted weary in their march homeward, and 
it is impossible to miss their track if you cross to the northward. I have 
no oppertunity to Hadly; if you please to express this letter to C" Par- 
tridge, let him march of company in the country what he can possibly in 
this conjuncture. & this is his order for the same. 

I am Sr, your humble ser't. J. Dudley 

[Letter of Governor Joseph Dudley to Governor Fitz John Winthrop, printed in 
Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 6th series, III, 248.] 

Boston, August 4th, 1704. 
146. Hono'^''^ Sir: — His Excellency our Governour being absent 
in business has commanded me to acquaint your Honour that on Mon- 
day the 31st of July past, early in the morning, the enemy in a numerous 
body of them or four hundred (being the same that came from Mont 
Real) insulted Lancaster, one of our frontiers in Middlesex, furiously 
assaulting six or seven garrisons at once; but finding the inhabitants on 
their duty and well provided to receive them, and auxiliaries from the 
neighbouring towns comeing in speedily to their assistance, they were 
obliged in a few hours time to draw off, having made no further impres- 
sion on the town than the burning of some few deserted houses, killing 
four of our men; three whereof were slain in a skirmish they had with 
them on the open field, in which it is concluded the enemy suffered a 
great loss, besides what they suffered from the garrisons. They also 
killed some cattle of which they got onely one meal, tooke no booty at 
all; In the pursuit our souldiers found several plots of blood in their 
stands. They continue still hovering in those woods and keep the posts 
alarmed ISA. Addington. 

[Letter of Secretary Addington to Fitz John Winthrop, printed in Mass. Hist. Soc. 
Coll., 6th series, HI, 252.] 

JOHN DAVIS. 

149. The Groton man slain and scalped by the Indians 
October 24, 1704, was not Samuel Davis, but his son John. 

INQUEST AT DEATH OF REV. ANDREW GARDNER. 

150. Lancaster, October y" 28, 1704. 

We y'= subscribers being sumoned by John Warner Constable of said 
Lancaster to appeare (before Capt Jonathan Prescott one of the Coroners 
of said County of Middlesex) at the house of Mr Andrew Gardner in said 
Lancaster, on Saterday ye 28 day of October, betwixt y" hours of 12 & 
one a clock after noone of a Jury of enquest, to make enquiry upon y^ 
Veiw of ye body of y'^ said Mr Andrew Gardner theire Lying Dead, how 
& in what maner he came to his death, have accordingly veiwed y" said 
dead body of Mr Andrew Gardner & examined y'' evidences appearing 
namely: Tho Sawyer Jur, Jabez Fairbank, Jonathan Pidge & Mrs Mary 
Bayley, we find the said dead body shot through the breast, & out at the 
back, which shot we apprehend the sole cause of his death; «& as to the 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



27 



maner of it, we find upon examination of Samuell Prescott of said Lan- 
caster, that y'" said Sam" Prescott being upon ye watch at y" said house 
of Mr Andrew Gardner, on y'' 26 of ye Instant in y" night, and not know- 
ing of any person being abroad but suposing all ye family in their beds, 
the said Sam" Prescott walking within y* fort, sudenly espied y" said Mr 
Andrew Gardner coming downe out of y<' uper flanker & he, said Pres- 
cott, being surprised taking him for an Indian Enemy, the said Prescott 
declared he sudenly made a shot at sd Mr Gardner v/hich Ave apprehend 
y" sole cause of his death as above said, [but ye said Mr Andrew Gard- 
ner coming to ye door of his house called to.]* therefore by what we find 
we apprehend y'^ said Samuel Prescott not guilty. 

Jonathan Prescott Co7'oner. L.S. 

John Houghton Sr. Foreman Thomas Wilder 
JosiAH White Caleb Sawyer 

JosiAH Whetcomb John Priest 

Jonathan Moore John Wilder 

Robert Houghton James Wilder 

John Wilder Jeremiah Wilson 

Jonas Houghton John Houghton Junr, 

* The words in brackets are crossed in original. 

[Suffolk Court Files, No. 6246.] 

REV. JOHN PRENTICE. 

165. Rev. John Prentice lived in the parsonage which 
had been the home of his two unfortunate predecessors. 
This stood facing the south, at least one hundred feet from 
the highway, on what is now the lawn of Eugene V. R. 
Thayer's residence. His first wife, Mary (Gardner), dying 
March 9, 1718, on November 11 of the same year he married 
at Charlestown the widow Prudence (Foster) Swan. The 
second Mrs. Prentice proved a very efficient helpmate, add- 
ing to her husband's meagre salary the profits of a little shop 
by the roadside near and south of the house, where for many 
years she retailed such merchandise as the neighborhood 
required. 

FRONTIER SCOUTS. 

172. The "Dangerous Circumstances" of the frontiers at 
this time are illustrated by the following records: 

A Muster Roll of a scout consisting of six men in her Majesty's Ser- 
vice within the Town of Lancaster containing an Accompt of Wages for 
this Service from the 25th of August to the 20th of November 1710, 
amounting to Twenty Pounds and Ten Shillings, examined by Mr Com. 



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ANNALS OF LANCASTER. 



missary General. Presented and Advised and Consented, That a War- 
rant be made out thereupon to the Treasurer to pay the above sum of 
Twenty Pounds and Ten Shillings to Capt. Thomas Wilder, Captain of 
Lancaster for and in behalfe of the six Centinels therein named. They 

being under his Command. 

[Minutes of Council Mass. Archives, LXXXI.] 

Tune 12, 1712. Resolved that the sum of Forty Shillings be allowed 

and paid out of the Publick Treasury to NatW^ Wilder towards Paying 

for cure of a. Wound received of the Enemy. 

[Court Records, IX, 202.] 

PROPRIETORS OF ADDITIONAL GRANT. 

174. The original records of the proprietors of the "Ad- 
ditional Grant" are preserved with the archives of Leomin- 
ster. The contract therein engrossed has slight verbal 
differences from the copy in the Lancaster records. The 
names of the signers, ninety-nine in number, are as follows: 



John Prentice 
David Whetcomb — 
Jonas Houghton Ju'' 
John Houghton Sen"^ 
John Harress 
Jonathan Wheeller 
Joseph Houghton 
Edward Hartwell 
Bezaleel Sawyer 
Thomas Wilder Sen-- 
Joshua Atherton 
Matthew Stone 
Henry Willard 
Josiah White Jun'' 
James Snow 
John Willard 
Gabriel Priest 
Ephraim Wilder 
Ebenezer Beaman 
James Atherton Jun'' 
Joseph Hutchins 
James Houghton 
Benjamin Houghton 
Peter Joslin 
Jonathan Willard 
Joseph Fairbank 
William Sawyer 
William Houghton 



Jonathan Moor 
Samuell Carter 
Thomas Carter 
Nathaniel Wilder 
Benjamin Bellows 
John Whetcomb 
Samuel Willard 
Jonathan Sawyer 
Josiah Willard 
John Moore 
John Beaman Jun'' 
Gamaliel Beaman 
Ebenezer Wilder 
Jonas Houghton Sen'' 
John Goss 
Jacob Houghton 
Joseph Wheelock 
John Warner Sen^ 
John Warner Jun' 
Henry Houghton 
William Blodgett 
Joseph Brabrook 
Josiah Sautell 
Josiah Whetcomb Jur 
•John Kendall 
Benjamin Harress 
Joseph Willard 
Elias Sawyer 



Jabez Fairbank 
John White 
Samuel Warner 
Hooker Osgood Sen'' 
Daniell Priest 
Jonathan Houghton 
Hezekiah Willard 
John Beaman Sen'" 
Robert Houghton Sen"" 
George Glazier 
John Prescott Ju'' 
Thomas Wilder Ju'' 
JolinX«yes 
John Johnson 
Ebenezer Prescott 
William Divoll 
Simon Steevens 
Hezakiah Whetcomb 
Caleb Sawyer 
Samuell Gibbs 
Samuel Bennitt Sen'' 
John Wilder Jun''. 
John Bowers 
Robert Houghton Ju'' 
Josiah Wheeller 
Oliver Wilder 
John Priest 
Joseph Sawyer 



MASSACHUSETTS. 29 



Josiah White Sen'' John Wilder Sen' Jonathan Whetcomb 

Mary Wilder Widow Thomas Sawyer Richard Wilder 

Jonathan Wilder Nathaniell Sawyer Edivard Phelps 

James Wilder Joseph Wilder Jeremiah Willson Sen"' 

Thomas Ross Thomas Tooker John Houghton Jun'. 

TOWN-MEETING RECORDS, 1714. 

175. The following- memoranda of town-meeting action 
are upon scraps of paper in the second John Houghton's 
handwriting, found among Joseph Willard's papers: 

Monday ye first of feb'y. 1713/14. Y« Inhabitants of Lancas- 
ter met at ye Meeting House being y** Publique Towne Meeting accord- 
ing to former order & custome of y'' Towne to Consider & Determine of 
Matters reffering to Land & other Concerns Proper for said Meeting: 
first chose John Beaman y^' moderator. Sam Benitt desires ye Towne 
to Give him some Land neer adjoining to his own Land where he is 
about to build a Sawmill. 2 proposition. Benj. Bellows Desires the 
Towne to grant him y" Liberty of Improving y" Towne Land & highway 
through Swan Swamp for some considerable time; that may Respond 
his Labour in Cleering said Land which he is willing to be obliged to 
do; & in Case he may have ye Improvement of y'= Land & Libertie to 
set & keep up Gates at ye entry of ye swamp on each side — this was 
voted in ye Negative, ^ly. John Houghton Sen"-. Desires y'= Towne to 
Let him have ye entervale formerly granted to Daniel Gains above y* 
red spring; or some other Land that may be equivalent in Lieu of said 
Gaines second Division of Intervale; also desires the Towne would sig- 
nifie their Minds whether or no they will let him have the 85 acres of up- 
land which he formerly laid out adjoining to said Intervale 4. George 
Crocker desires y'= Towne to give him 50 acres of Land upon Rasonable 
tcrmes to be laid out to him in ye undivided Land where he may find it 
most convenient. 5. Jonathan Moore Desires y** Towne to Consider 
his Circumstances Reffering to y'' Lott which upon Ensigne Moores Re- 
quest, was Granted for Joseph Moor & after his Death, it was Desired it 
might be for Jonathan Moor & he hath paid ye Charge of ever since, as 
Long as any Persons paid for Lotts; which Lott is probable to be in 
Controversie whether he shall hold it or no. The towne voted not to 
concern themselves with it. 6. he Desires the Towne to give him Lib- 
ertie to make a dam upon Wataquadock brook above y'^ bridge on Marl- 
borough road & in order to build a corne mill; and to Let ye highway 
ly below or over ye Dam & Round Mordicas medow & he will make y'= 
way good at the head of y*' medow and over y'' brook upon his own 
charge, this proposition was granted by a vote of y^ Towne. 7. A 
proposition was made for a highway cross from y^ highway to y® medows 
that Lyeth up Nashaway River by ye pond to ye New Sawmill; which 
was then granted by a vote of ye Towne. 8. Jonathan Sawyer desired 



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ye Towne to grant him ten acres of Land at the northerly side of the 
Land of his Honor"* father Caleb Sawyer, but it was negative. As to 
Sam", benitts proposition one Reason he gave was because his Interval 
Lot at ponakin wanted measure & then the Towne appointed Capt. Jos- 
lin & John Houghton Jr to go & view it & make Report to the Towne. 

The "new saw mill" above mentioned was probably that 
of Joseph Sawyer, situate in what is now Boylston; and this 
record seems to be proof that the site of "Sawyer's Mills" 
was utilized as early as 1713. The proprietors of Lancaster 
confirmed to Sawyer, in 1720, lands upon both sides of the 
river " where there is falls upon the River below a Great 
Scar," and in Januar\', 1728, laid out lands to Joseph and 
Thomas Sawyer "on a pine plain mostly adjoyning and 
mostly above where Joseph Sawyer has built a Sawmill." 
Aaron Sawyer, the son of Joseph, has been wrongly credited 
by local annalists with the building of the first mill here. 

Monday ye first of March 171 3/14. Ye Inhabitants of Lancaster 
met at the Meetinghouse according to appointment & first chose Capt 
Tho. Wilder moderator for sd meeting & then a warrant was Read for 
choice of a Grand juror & the Constable accordingly warned y'= Towne 
to choose one. 2. The Towne then proceeded to a Choice & Chose 
Joseph Hutchins to sarve on y'' Grand Jury for y** yeare Insuing & then 
chose Selectmen j. namely Capt Tho Wilder John Houghton Sen'' Capt 
Peter Joslin Robert Houghton Sen"" & Hooker Osgood Sen'' Select Men 
to serve for y"^ year ensuing. 4. The Towne voted to Choose 3 Consta- 
bles to serve for ye yeare ensuing, vizt one upon y* west side of y'= River 
& two on ye east side, & first Chose Samuel Carter, 2dly John Wilder Jr 
& Joseph Wilder Constables for ye yeare Insuing. John Houghton Jr 
Towne Clerk; Capt Thomas Wilder Towne Treasurer but he not ac- 
cepting the Towne Proceeded to a new choice & then chose Capt. Peter 
Joslin Town Treasurer; Edward Hartwell Joseph Houghton & Eben- 
ezer Wilder surveiors for highways; John Wilder Sen. & Jabez ffairbank 
Tything men; Hezekiah Townsend Sealer of Leather; John Keyes Jonas 
Houghton Jur & Jonathan Houghton Assessors; Jonathan Sawyer Sam- 
uel Willard John Buss Josiah Judd field Drivers & then a Letter was 
Read from ye Selectmen of Watertown about theire bridge; & then sev- 
erall of y^ Towne officers had y'= oath Administered to them, namely 
John Wilder Jur. Joseph Wilder, Samuel Carter Constables, John Hough- 
ton Jr. Town Clerk. 

INDIANS AT WASHACUM, 1714. 

1 75. A memorial was presented by Capt" Tho How of Marlboro of 
the Disorders Committed by a small number of y^ Indians living at Wa- 



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shacum a place abl. five or six miles above Lancaster, frequently coming 
into their Cornfields gathering and carrying away their corn in Consid- 
erable Ouantitys and also killing their Horses in the Woods being a 
Terror to ye women & children for fear of some Design, supposed to be 
Albany Indians. 

Advised that his Exceir>. be Desired to Acquaint Gov. Hunter 
therewith and to take care effectually to restrain sd Disorders. And 
that Capt". Tho. How Mr John Houghton and Lt Ephraim Wilder of 
Lancaster be Directed to find out and Speake with the sd Indians and 
make it certain who they are, treat them civilly and to forbid their com- 
mitting any further Disorders. 

[Minutes of Council, LXXXI, 858. Sept. 9, 1714.] 

TRAINING FIELDS. 

186. To the six-acre training field "below Thomas Saw- 
yers door" is due the unusual breadth of South Lancaster 
Street. February i, 1747/8, the proprietors voted to sell 
this common "which was left for a training field, excepting 
six rods wide for a private way a cross ye same," and it was 
sold that year. The training field upon the Old Common was 
never surrendered to the proprietors in fee and was partly 
fenced in by Burrill Carnes when he purchased the Wilder 
farm — now occupied b)' the state school — about 1795. A 
part of it remained common until the State Industrial School 
was here established. 

TAHANTO'S LAND GRANT. 
193. Sam' Bennet of Lancaster Testifies that he was with the 
Indian, vizt. John Aquiticus when he showed the bounds of the land sold 
to the Lancaster People by George Tahanto and other Indians, that the 
said Aquiticus then told them they might go to Mashapaug Pond, and 
that they should goe three miles wide at that end. 

Saml X Bennet's mark 
Lancaster, May 29th, 1720. 

[Suffolk Court Files, No. 1434.] 

INDIANS AT LANCASTER, 1722-3. 
204. On Monday last a Woman at Lancaster, as she was at work 
alone in the Field, was taken by Two Indians, one of which cou'd speak 
English, andexamin'd her about the Indians lately taken and imprison'd 
at Boston. After she had inform'd them that 8 of the Number were dis- 
mis'd they cut off the Hair on one side of her Head, and order'd her to 
lay it down in the Place where she had been at work, and come to them 
again. The same Day some People who were searching for the Woman, 
found her Hair lying in the Field and concluding she had been carried 



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away by the Indians, immediately raised some Men to go after them, 
who came so near to them as to be within their Hearing; whereupon the 
Indians stript the Woman and dismis'd her, who when she arriv'd at the 
Garrison fainted away with over much Joy at her deliverance. The men 
miss'd of the Indians by reason of the Thickness of the Woods. 

[The New England Courant, Aug. 27, 1722.] 

The "Indians imprisoned at Boston" had been appre- 
hended near Lancaster. Proving to be men of a western 
tribe on a hunting excursion, Lieutenant Jabez Fairbank of 
Lancaster was detailed to conduct them to the Connecti- 
cut River and dismiss them. 

On Sunday the 22* past, a lad of about fifteen years of Age, being 
out with his Gun at Nashaway discover'd an Indian wading over a River, 
and fired on him. The Indian made his Escape, but 'tis since discov- 
er'd that he was very much wounded, having been tracked by his Blood 
for a considerable Distance from the River. 

[The New England Courant, Oct. 7, 1723.! 

RATE LISTS, 1723. 

207. Among papers of Jonathan Wilder were found two 
lists of names, one hundred and two in all, being the Lan- 
caster rate payers in 1723 living east of the river, as invoiced 
by Samuel Warner and Benjamin Bailey, two of the three 
constables. The list of inhabitants west of the river assigned 
to constable Edward Hartwell was unfortunately not found. 
The first list, Warner's, embraces all who then lived in what 
is now Harvard and the northerly part of Bolton. The oth- 
er, Bailey's list, includs those dwelling on the Old Common 
and in the Wataquadock region. 



Samuel Willard 
Hezek. Willard 
Jos^ Willard 
Joseph Atherton 
John Warner 
Jona. Willard 
Mary Atherton 
John Atherton 
Jacob Houghton 
Caleb Sawyer 
Jacob Houghton Jr. 
Elias Sawyer Jr. 



Jona. Sawyer 

Joseph Fairbank 

Benja. Atherton Sen'' 

John Nichols 
>-J3avid Whitcomb 
■^ Jona. Whitcomb 

Nath'. Hapgood 
■^Josiah Whitcomb 

John Wilder 

Josiah Wilder 

Jonas Wilder 

Shatuck Brooks 

Seth Walker 



Samuel Gibbs 
Jona. Houghton 
Richd. Wildes 
Jabez Fairbanks 
W™. Sawyer 
Hez'\ Townsend 
Gershom Houghton 
Jona. Moore 
Thos. Tooker 
Jarnes Snow 
Thos. Houghton 
Hez'\ Snow 
Benj. Wilson 



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Jonas Houghton Jr. 
James Houghton 
Josiah Houghton 
Jonas Houghton 
_Hezek. Whitcomb 
Henry Houghton 
Benj. Atherton 
Daniel Houghton 
Joseph Hutchins 
Thomas Houghton 
Benj. Bellows 
John Houghton 
Jerem''. Wilson 
Sam'. Wilson 
James Atherton 

Whitney 

John Whitney 
Isaiah Whitney 
Jona. Crouch 
Sam'. Warner 
Gabriel Priest 
Joseph Priest 



Sam'. Rogers 
Sam'. Rogers Jr. 
Henry Willard 
Abra'». Willard 
Henry Willard 
James Willard 
Edw^. Houghton 
Ephr". Houghton 
John Willard 
Joseph Willard 
John Priest 
Samuel Chamberlain 
John Sawyer 

James Wilder 
Bezaleel Sawyer 
Thomas Wilder 
Benj. Bailey 
Rob'. Houghton 
Jno. Moore 
Jno. Houghton Esq 
Joseph Sawyer 



Jno. Beaman 
Saml. Rugg 
Joshua Wheeler 
Thos. Whitney 
Jerem*". Holman 
Jeremiah Holman 
Jas. Keyes 
Benj. Wheeler 
Jerm"" Wilson 
Josiah Wheeler 
James Butler 
Eb--. PoUey 
John Wallis 
Josiah Houghton 
Eliezar Houghton 
Nathan Hawood 
Ebr. Wilder 
Joseph Wilder 
W". Houghton 
Benj. Clark 



JUDGE JOSEPH WILDER. 

214. Lancaster, March 29. Died here greatly lamented in the 
74th. Year of his Age, and was decently interr'd on the 31st, the Honour- 
able JOSEPH WILDER Esq: — He was a Gentleman of fine Genius; 
and acted with Integrity and Honour in Church, on the Bench, and at 
the Council Board; — He was a Father to the Poor; a Lover of good 
Men; a Friend to his Country, to Truth and Virtue — He was pleasant 
and entertaining in Conversation; And in domestic Life kind, instruc- 
tive & exemplary. 

[The Boston Weekly News-Letter, Thursday, April 14, 1757.] 

CAPTAIN JOHN WHITE. 

228. We are informed of the death of Captain John White of Lan- 
caster a man of religion, probity, courage, and conduct, and hearty in 
the service of his Country against the Indian enemy. 

[The Boston Nevvs-Letter, Sept. g, 1725.] 

RALPH HOUGHTON. 

251. Ralph Holton a member of y'^ Church of Lancaster in full 
communion; a settled Inhabitant and householder above 24 years of 
age, desires to be a freeman of this Collony. 

May 18, 1668 Attested By Simon Willard 
Admitted to freedome 18 . . 3 mo. . 68, per Curriam. E R Secy. 

[Mass. Archives, C VI, 4S6.] 



34 ANNALS OF LANCASTER, 

Ralph Houghton died in Milton, April 15, 1705, aet. 82. 
He is thought to have been a son of Sir Richard Houghton 
of Houghton Tower, Lancashire. The above record proves 
that although he had served the town as clerk for twelve 
years, he was not qualified under colonial law to vote for 
magistrate or legislator. 

THE CALF PASTURE. 
278. About one acre of Prescott's intervale was given a 
name which clung to it until quite modern days. It was de- 
scribed in 1686 thus: 

near the meeting of the rivers, the sd land lying on the west side 

of the river (sd river) almost running round the said land, which is 
known by the name of the Calf Pasture. [Middlesex Registry, XXIV, 38.] 

In 1730 another transfer of this lot occurred, when it was 
described as: — 

one acre which formerly lay on the west side of the river in a 

nook of it, and it was called the Calf pasture, but said nook being dug 
across, the river now runneth there. [Middlesex Registry, XXX, 345.] 

The old bed of the river surrounding the acre remains 
distinctly visible near, and north of, the Atherton bridge. 

OFFICIALS. 

337. William Stedman was riot elected an Executive 
Councillor. 

338. Ralph Houghton was again made Clerk of the Writs. 

April 6, 1686. Ralph Houghton is appointed by this Court to be 
Clarke of the Writts for Lancaster and Cyprian Steevens is dismissed 
from that office. [Middlesex Records. C.C.P., IV, 221.] 

Cyprian Stevens was reappointed under Dudley, October 
19, 1686, to take account of births and deaths and "to act in 
said ofifice according to the order of the President and 
Council." 

339. John Houghton's long service as clerk proves not 
to have been continuous as stated. John Houghton, Jr., was 
elected in 1714, as the memoranda of town-meeting action 
discovered since 1884, and printed on a previous page, prove. 
The absence of any records makes it impossible to say 
whether he served for one or several years. 



MILITARY ANNALS 



LANCASTER, MASSACHUSETTS. 



11, 12. COLONEL JOHN PRESCOTT. 

JOHN PRESCOTT is styled "Colonel" in Council Rec- 
*-^ ords, July 7, 1740, and elsewhere, but Daniel Goffe held 
the senior commission as captain. Five of the ten compan- 
anies raised in Massachusetts were sent in the West Indian 
expedition of 1740. John Winslow, the fifth captain, re- 
ceived Governor Belcher's certificate for want of the king's 
commission. 

SIEGE OF LOUISBURG. 

22. [May] 18. [1745] Saturday Capt. Peirce kill'd this Day 

by a Cannon Ball Thr°. his Bowels, he Livd a Qu^ of an hour and then 
Died — his Death is Greately Lamented, 

[September] 6*''. [1745.] Fryday about 8 in y" morning Died Capt. 
Warner The Lord Sanctify his holy hand att 5 O' the Clock we 
Buryed him with a Great Deal of honour & Respect a Part of all or 
Cheif of y'^ Com^ in y'^ Regiment attended y'' funer'. Under arms the 
Souldiers warlk foremost with their arm[s] in funeral Posture next y®. 
Drummers next y". Cap"^ next y" Corp[se] Behind walkt y<=. General 
Colo Willard at his Left hand next all the Col"^ 

[Diary of Lieut. Dudley Bradstreet.] 

Captain Peirce was that Joshua Peirce, housewright, who 
at the age of twenty-two years enlisted for the Carthagena 



36 MILITARY ANNALS OF LANCASTER, 

expedition of 1740, from Lancaster, with Captain John Pres- 
cott. Lieutenant Dudley Bradstreet was of Groton, and 
served in Captain John Warner's company. He incidentally 
mentions in his diary the names of forty enlisted men. Of 
these, the following were probably Lancaster soldiers: 

John Croofoot — Creford m Lancaster records — died No- 
vember 28, 1745. 

John Dakin, died August 19, 1745. 

Sergeant Goodfrey. 

Benjamin Stearns. 

Sergeant Woods [Joseph?], died August 21, 1745. 

Sergeant John Wright, died December 12, 1745. 

Matthew Wyman. 

FITCH'S GARRISON. 

24. The story of the Indian raid upon the Fitch garri- 
son is told in Torrey's History of Fitchburg, in Marvin's His- 
tory of Lancaster, and in the Boston News Letter for July 
18, 1748. The first named author gives a wrong date to the 
tragedy, the second copies one error and adds another of his 
own, while Fitch's petition to the General Court corrects 
some mistakes in the News Letter's account. This petition 
has been printed in a sketch of Ashby in the History of 
Middlesex County, 1890, I, 309. Like most traditions, "Sur- 
dody's Vengeance" rests upon very dubious foundations. 

CAPTAIN GERSHOM FLAGG. 

32. Captain Gershom Flagg was in the service as early 
as 1746, this fact being attested by an elaborately carved 
powder-horn preserved in the Memorial Hall of Lancaster, 
upon which is inscribed his name. He was then at Amos- 
keag. 

CAPTIVES, 1757. 

59. Among captives at Fort William Henrj/ in 1757 who 
survived and returned to Lancaster were: "Joseph Church 
son of Joshua," and "Lynn Jock negro of Nathaniel Whitte- 

more. [Minutes of Council, IV, 304 and 320.] 



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SAWYER'S BAY. 

82. A batteau under command of Lieutenant Kphraim 
Sawyer was wrecked upon Grand Isle, Lake Champlain, in a 
gale, August 14, 1760, when Joseph Stewart was drowned. 
Sawyer attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Revo- 
lution, and when the war was over he removed from Lancas- 
ter to Grand Isle, where he died in 1813, aged ninety-four 
years. His place of residence gave name to Sawyer's Bay. 

BUNKER HILL. 

123. Captain Abner Cranson's company was also in the 
action at Bunker Hill, and his ensign, Benjamin West, was 

killed. [Mass. Archives, CLXXXII, 201.] 

There is a tradition among the descendants of Major 
Ephraim Sawyer that he was sent in command of the com- 
panies of Col. Asa Whitcomb's regiment that were ordered 
to reinforce Prescott. 

SIEGE OF BOSTON. 

136. Sunday March 10. [Dorchester, 1776.]. .. .Four men, some 
say five, were killed by the enemy's cannon, and by one ball; They were 
sitting round a fire on the hill. 

[Diary of Ezekiel Price, Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc, 1863, p. 242.] 

137. Wednesday, Aug. 7, [Boston.] Colonel Sergeant's and Whit- 
comb's regiments set off on their march for Crown Point. [Idem.] 

An interesting itinerary of Colonel Whitcomb's three 
weeks' march to Ticonderoga is given in the Journal of Eb- 
enezer Wild, printed in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society, second series, VI, 79-83. 

CAPTAIN EAGER'S COMPANY. 

164. The following rosters of militia companies led from 
Lancaster in 1777 by Captain Fortunatus Eager fill a notice- 
able gap in the printed records of the town's contributions 
to the continental service in that year: 



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MILITARY ANNALS OF LANCASTER, 



Lancaster, April 3, 1777. 
Militia Regiment of Foot Coinmanded by Coll. Josiah IVhittiey, a cofn- 
pany whereof Capt. Fortunatus Eager Comjnanded who Marched to 
Reenforce the army in the Persies under the Com7nand of his Exel- 
ency General Washington and Continued in the Service Three 
mofiths and Twenty-six Days in addition to Fourteen Days allowed 
to Return Home. 



Capt. Fortunatus Eager 
Lieuts: Timo. Heywood 

Sam". Joslin 
Sergts: John Wheelock 
Abel Phelps 
Tho Clealand 
Matthias Larkin 
Corprils: Samuel Adams 
Eph". Goss 
Lemuel Fairbank 
Jona. White 
Drummer John Wheelock 
Fifer John Wheelock Jr. 
Aaron Rugg 
Thos Kendall 
Joseph Nowell 
Reuben Rice 



Nath". Haskell 
Noah Crossman 
Joshua Whitney 
Israel Cook 
Nathan Wilder 
John Dole 
Elihu Goss 
John Stuart 
Thomas Wright 
Caleb Whetney 
Enoch Roper 
Nathan Burpee 
Seth Ross 

Benjamin Wilder de- 
ceased in the service 
Joel Chase 
John Robhins 



Aaron Willard 
Titus Colburn 
Sam" Woods 
Peter Swears 
Abner Haskell 
Nathan Parmeter 
Joshua Kendal 
John Bennett 
John Fletcher 
Abijah Haskell 
William Fairbank 
Zebede Simon 
Amos Brown 
Sam" Churchell 
John Hale 
Isaac Tower 



A Pay Roll of Capt. Fortunatus Eager s Company in Lt. Ephm. Saw- 
yer s Regent of Massachusett s Bay Militia Who Marched as a Re- 
inforcement for the Northern Army in October the 2d 1777 : [Service 
25 days, including 8 for returning.] 



Fortunatus Eager, Capt. 
Elisha Sawyer, i^*. Lt. 
Nath'. Sawyer, 2^ Lt. 
William Wilder, i. Sert, 
Ebenezer Pike, 2 Sert 
William Kendal, 3 Do. 
Timothy Kilburn, 4 Do 
Jonathan Wilder i CorpI 
Aaron Sawyer 2 Do 
Phineas Fletcher 3 Do 
Ebenezer Ross 4 Do 
Eph'". Kendall, Drum. 
William Kendall, Fife 
Abell. Allen Private 

Josiah Bennet " 

Jacob Allen " 



Isaac Rayner 
Aaron Phelps 
Simon Butler 
Silas Thurston 
Jacob Swears 
Benj". Farmer 
Sam" Jewet 
Hen"". W. Farmer 
Manasor Knight 
Elihu Wilder 
John Spafford 
John Robbins 
Seth Fairbanks 
David Gary 
Elijah Dressor 
Oliver Bowker 



Joshua Kendal 
Oliver Moor 
Jonathan Thompson 
Stephen Goss 
Thomas Blodgett 
Enoch Roper 
John Roper 
Andrew Putnam 
Josiah Cutting 
Peter Prescott 
John Willard 
Joshua Piper 
Tilly Richardson 
Silas Rice 
Elisha Rugg 
John May 



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Paul Sawyer " Eph™ Powers Abel Richardson 

Amos Sawyer " Nathan Nelson Nath. Houton 

James Pratt " Josiah Person Jonathan Nelson 

John Thurston " Joseph Palmer Nath' White 

[Mass. Archives, Revolutionary Rolls, Vol. XIX, pp. 9 and 10.] 

JOHN AND JAMES BATTEL. 

180. [Providence, 1778.] 17 Oct, This afternoon at 2 O'clk. the 
brigade was turned out, in order to attend the execution of John and 
James Battel, soldiers in Colo. Shepard's regt. The criminals were 
brought from the Provost under a strong guard. Their coffins were 
borne just before them. The Dead March was played behind them. In 
this manner they were brought to the place where they were to be exe- 
cuted. When the brigade was paraded, the Criminals were brought in 
front for every one to see them; after which their sentence was read, 
which was to be shot. Their coffins were set down by the edge of their 
graves. The men that were to be their executioners had their guns 
loaded for that purpose and marched up within about a rod of the coffins. 
The criminals were made to kneel down by the side of their coffins in 
order to receive the fatal blow, but at the moment they were to be shot 
their reprieves were read. The brigade marched back to our camp and 

was dismissed. 

[Ebenezer Wild's Diary, Massj Hist. Soc, Proc, 1890.] 

EPHRAIM SAWYER AND SONS. 

181. Lieutenant John Sawyer was quartermaster of the 
Eighth Massachusetts regiment. Ensign James Sawyer 
served in the Seventh, and February lo, 1781, was transferred 
to the Tenth. They were sons of Lieutenal-colonel Ephraim 
Sawyer, the major of the Lancaster regiment at Bunker Hill, 
and three other sons of his — Captain Ephraim, Josiah and 
Peter — also served in the patriot army. 

WILLIAM DEPUTRON. 

189. William Deputron's petition, found in Massachu- 
setts Archives, CLXXXVII, 329, gives some facts of interest 
regarding one of Lancaster's continental soldiers: 

To the Honbl. Senate and House of Representatives. 

W"' De Putron of Lancaster humbly shows that in the year seven- 
teen hundred and seventy-six in Coll Hitchcock's Regiment then in the 
Continental service, and on the 27th. Day of August in the same year 
he was taken by the British troops under the Command of General Sir 
William Howe in Long Island; he was then confined in a close prion 



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MILITARY ANNALS OF LANCASTER. 



about a year, which was so loathsome and unhealthy and the prisoners 
usage was so cruel that the greatest part of them died in a few months. 
Your Petitioner suffered with firmness and patience untill his health and 
strength were so exhausted that a longer confinement must have proved 
certain death. He then consented to do duty in their service as the only 
means of saving his life, and furnishing an opportunity of Returning to 
his country. Your Petitioner being taken out of prison was sent into 
Canada by the way of Halifax and up St Lawrence's River where he 
was obliged to do duty about four years, having in that time no chance 
of escape, untill he was marched to Mohawk River with design to attack 
the American frontiers in that quarter: Your Petitioner on his coming 
near the Inhabitants escaped from the british troops with the utmost 
danger, came in and gave notice of the enemy's approach on the 4th of 
November last. Your Petitioner when taken lost his arms and clothing 
as mentioned hereafter, and also while with the british he was severely 
treated and compelled to the hardest duty, he has received neither 
money nor clothing for now three years past, whereof your Petitioner 
most humble prays the Honble Court to take his case and misfortunes 
into their wise and indulgent consideration, and be pleased to grant him 
such pay and allowance as shall be a reasonable satisfaction for the in- 
juries he has sustained merely in consequence of his enlisting into the 
Continental service. William de Putron. 

Lancaster Jany. loth 1782. 

The petitioner was allowed 24;?^, full pay for his term of 
service. Among unindexed files in the state archives there 
were found in 1892 the receipts for 60^ bounty paid each of 
five of the seven three years soldiers enlisted for Lancaster 
under the final call of March i, 1782. Their names were: 
Levi White, John Hannah, Archippus Wheelock, Moses 
Dickerson and William Deputron. 

LOYALISTS. 

205. Captain Thomas Beaman and Dr. Nahum Willard 
should not be omitted from the list of Lancaster's Loyalists. 
Three companies of " his Majestj^'s loyal American subjects 
residing in Boston," 1775, were organized under command of 
Colonel Timothy Ruggles, and styled the Loyal American 
Associates. Abijah Willard and Thomas Beaman were ap- 
pointed by Governor Gage the captain and lieutenant of the 
first company. Dr. Nahum Willard was an elder brother of 
Abijah, born 1722, May 28, in Lancaster. He was a physi- 
cian of high repute, in Worcester. John Adams boarded 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



41 



with him while a teacher in that city. He was one of the 
"52 protestors," was listed among the dangerous tories, lost 
practice and prosperity, and died at Uxbridge, April 26, 1792. 

SALTPETRE MANUFACTURE 

211. Lancaster Decern. 8th. 1775. 

These will certify that the Fifty pounds of salt-peter, herewith to be 
exhibited to the General Court's Committee empowred to receive the 
same was manufactured within this Town by Mr Levy Wilder one of 
the inhabitants thereof, m Works by him prepared and well scituated 
for carying on the said manufacture; that the said Salt peter has been 
there vew'd by a majority of us the subscribers. 

Wm Dunsmoor ^ c / / 
Ebenezer Allen [ ^^^^^^'"^" 
Samll. Thurston [ /^„^^,/.„ 
Cyrus Fairbank J ^««^«-^^^^ 

Lancaster, June 7, 1776. 
Messiers Ephraim Bovvker and John Farrerof this Town upon Oath 
before me declare that they have upon hand in their Possession eighty- 
three Pounds of Salt Peter which was manufactured by them before the 
first Day of June instant. Josiah Wilder, Jzis^. Peace 

Lancaster, June 10, 1776. 

William Kendal of this Town, maketh oath that he has now in his 

Possession six Pounds of Salt Peter which was manufactured by him 

before the first day of this Instant, before me 

JosiAH Wilder, Just Peace 
[Massachusetts Archives.] 

228. Another notable refugee from Boston or vicinity, 
who gained a permanent home in Lancaster, was Ebenezer 
Bradish, Esq., a graduate of Harvard College in the class of 
1769. He had practiced law for a time in Cambridge, but 
abandoned the profession and became a "merchant." He 
was an outspoken tory in the early days of revolution, but 
made humble submission soon enough to save his goods 
from confiscation by the patriots. He held a retailer's 
license for a time in the Chocksett precinct, now Sterling, 
became a victim to his love for strong drink, and died by his 
own hand in the village now known as South Lancaster, 
April 30, 18 18, at the age of seventy-three years. 



42 MILITARY ANNALS OF LANCASTER, 

SOLDIERS. 

271. Charles Jones, son of Moses, died in the United 
States hospital at Avon, New York, April i8, 1815, in the 
United States army. 

317. Charles Fred Warren, native of Lancaster, served 
in 132 Indiana Vols., Co. A, from May 8, 1864, 100 days. 

322. Joshua Ward Childs, native of Lancaster, served in 
53 Mass. Inft, Co. B, Oct. 17, 1862-Sept. 2, 1863. 



INDEX. 



ADAMS, Daniel, 12. 
Francis, 11. 

George, 10, 11, 22. 

Samuel, 38. 
Additional Grant, proprie- 
tors, 28, 29, 31. 
Asranienticus, 5. 
Allen, Abel, 38. 

Benjamin, 9, 22. 

Ebenezer. 41. 

Jacob, 38. 
Andros, Sir Edmund, 14. 

15, 16 
Aquiticus, John, 37. 
Assoatetick hill, 9. 
Atherton, Benjamin, 32,33. 

James. 22, 23, 28, 33. 

John, 32, 

Joseph, 32. 

Joshua, 22, 23, 28. 

Mary, 32. 
Attack upon Lancaster : 

1676—13, 14, 16. 17, 18, 19. 

1697—24. 25. 

1704—5, 25, 26. 

BAILEY, Benjamin, 32, 
23- 

John, 22. 

Mary, 26. 
Battell, James, 39. 

John, 39. 
Beaman, Ebenezer, 28. 

Gamaliel, 22, 23, 28. 

John, 22, 23, 28, 29, 33. 

Thomas, 12, 40, 
Beaucourt. Chevalier, 5. 
Bellows, Benjamin, 28, 29. 

33- 
Bennett, John. 38. 

Josiah. 38. 

Samuel, 28, 29, 30, 31. 
Blodget, Thomas, 38. 

VVilliam, 28. 
Bloomarv, Prescott's, 8. 
Boston, siege of, 37. 
Bowers, John, 28, 
Bowker, Ephraim, 41. 

Oliver, 38. 
Brabrook, Joseph, 28. 
Bradish, Ebenezer, 41. 
Bradstreet, Dudley, 36. 
Brickmaker, first, 24. 
Brooks, Shattuck, 32. 
Brown, Amos, 38. 
Bulkeley.Kev Gershom, 20. 
Bunker Hill, battle of, 37. 
Burpee, Nathan. 38. 
Busn, John, 22. 
Buss, John, 36. 



Butler, James, 33. 
Simon, 38. 

CALF Pasture.Prescott's 
34. 
Captives 1676, 16. 17, 18, 19. 

^ 1757, 36- .„ 
Carnes, burnil, 31. 
Carter, Samuel, 23, 28, 30. 

Thomas, 28. 
Chamberlain, Samuel, 33. 
Chase, Joel, 38. 
Chesquonopog pond, 9. 
Childs, John VV., 42. 
Church, Joseph, 36. 
Churchill, Samuel, 38 
Clark, Benjamin, 33. 
Clealand, Thomas, 38. 
Clerk of the writs, 34. 
Coasset, 14. 
Colburn, Titus, 38. 
Cook, Israel, 38. 
Corn mill, 21, 29. 
Courser, Archelaus, 22. 
Cowdall, John, 10, 
Cranson, Abner, 37. 
Creford, John, 36. 
Crocker, George, 29. 
Grossman, Noah, 38. 
Crouch, Jonathan, 35. 
Cutting, Josiah, 38. 

DAKIN, John, 36. 
Darbyshire, John, 23. 
Davis, John, 26. 

Samuel, 26. 
Day, Stephen, 10. 
Deputron, William, 39, 40. 
Dickerson, Moses, 40. 
Divens, Mrs., 16. 
DivoU, John, 12, 22. 

Hannah. 16. 

William, 28. 
Doctress Whitcomb, 24. 
Dole, John, 38. 
Downing, Lucy, 5- 
Dresser, Elijah, 38. 
Drew family, 16, 17. 
Dublet, Tom, 19. 
Dunsmoor, William, 41 

EAGER, Fortunatus, 37. 
38. 
Eliot, Rev. John, 6, 7, 19. 

FAIRBANK, Cyrus, 41. 
Jabez, 17, 23,26,28,30,32. 
Jonas, 10, 25. 
Jonathan, 23, 24, 25. 
Joseph. 28. 32. 



Lemuel, 38. 

Mary, 24. 

Seth, 38. 

William, 38. 
Families in L., 1688, 21, 22. 

1692, 23. 
Farmer, Benjamin, 38. 

Henry \V„ 38. 
Farrer, Jacob, 9. 

John, 41. 
Fitcn garrison raid, 36. 
Flagg, Gerhhom, 36. 
Fletcher, John, 38. 

Phineas, 38. 
Forge, Prescott's, 8, 
Fort VVilliam Henry, 36. 
Foster, Prudence, 27. 
Freedom certificate, 33. 
Frost, James, 23. 



AINS, Daniel, 10, 12, 22. 

_29. 



G 

Gardner, Andrew, 26, 27. 

Mary, 27. 
Garrisons 1692, 23, 24. 
Garrison house blown up, 

II. 
Gates, Simon, 22. 
Geary, David, 38. 
George hill, 10. 
Gibbs, Samuel, 28, 32, 
Glazier, George, 28. 

John. 22. 

Goodfrey, , 36. 

Goodnow, Sarah, 18. 
Gookin, Samuel, 11, 19. 
Goss, Elihu, 38. 

Ephraim, 38. 

lohn, 28. 

Phihp, 23, 24. 

Stephen, 38. 

HALE, John, 38. 
Hannah, John, 40. 
Hap^ood, Nathaniel, 32. 
Hams, Benjamin, 28. 

John, 28. 
Hartwell, Edward, 28, 3032. 
Haskell, Abijah, 38. 

Abner, 38. 

Nathaniel, 38. 
Highways, ownership of, 8. 
Huchman, Daniel, 19, 
Hewes, George, 22, 23. 
Heywood, Nathan, 38. 

Timothy, 38. 
Hinds, John, 22, 23. 
Hoar, John. 19. 
Holman. Jeremiah, 33. 



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INDEX. 



Houghton, Benjamin, 28. 
Daniel, 33. 
Edward, 23- 
Eliezer, 22- 
Ephraini, 38. 
Gershom, 32. 
Henry, 28, 33. 
Jacob, 28, 32. 
James, g, 22. 23, 28, 33. 
John, 5, 20, 22, 23, 27, 28, 
^ 29,30- 31,33, 34- „ 
Jonas, 22, 23, 27, 28, 30, 

,33- 

Jonathan, 28, 30, 32. 

Joseph, 22, 23, 28, 30. 

Josiah. 33. 

Nathaniel, 39. 

Ralph, 22, 23, 34. 

Richard, 34. 

Robert. 22, 27, 28, 30, 33. 

Thomas, 32, 33. 

William, 28, 33. 
How, Daniel, 18. 
Hudson, Daniel, 22, 23, 24. 

James, 23. 

John, 22, 23. 

William, 22. 
Hutchins, Joseph, 28, 33. 

INDIANS, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 
li. 16, ig, 30, 31, 32. 
Inquest, Gardner, 26, 27. 
Iron mine, 8. 

JAMES, Quanapaug, 7, 
12. 13, 14. 
Jewett, Samuel, 38. 
Job, 13, 14. 
Jock, Lynn, 36, 
John, One-eyed, 7, 13, 
Johnson, John, 28. 
Jones, Charles, 42. 

Rev. John, 25. 
Joslin, Abraham, 18. 

Henry, 22. 

Joseph, iS. 

Nathaniel, 22. 

Peter, 22, 23, 28, 30. 

Samuel. 38. 
Judd, Josiah, 30. 
Jurors elected, 8, 9. 

KENDALL, Ephraim,38 
John. 28. 

Joshua, 38. 

Thomas, 38. 

William, 38. 
Kerley, Elizaueth, 18. 

Hannah. 18. 

Henry, 9, 18, 22. 

Mary, 18. 

Williani, 12. 
Kettell, Goodwife, 18, 19. 

John. i7, 18. 

Joseph, 17, iS. 

Richard. 18. 
Keyes, James, 33. 

John, 28, 30. 
Kilburn, Timothy, 38. 
Knight, Manassen, 38. 

T ARKIN Matthias, 38. 
■1— Lewis. Barrachiah, 22. 

Christopher, 22 

Isaac. 22 
Louisburg, Siege of, 35. 36. 
Loyalists of L., 40. 41. 



M AQUAS or Mohawks, 
II, 12, 14, 15. 
Mat hew, 7, 11. 
Matoonas, 16. 
Maverick, Samuel, 6. 
May, John, 38. 
McLeod. Mordicai, 22. 
Menamesset, 14. 
Military execution, 39. 
Military officers, 35,39, 
Monoco, John, 7, 12, 16. 
Moore, John, i, 22, 23, 28, 
29, y- 

Jonathan, 27, 28, 29, 32. 

Oliver, 38. 
Muttaump, 16, 19. 

NASHAWAV in 1653,6. 
Indians, 6, 7, 11. 

River, 6. 
Nashowanon, 6. 
Nelson, Jonathan. 39. 

Nathan, 39. 
Newby. George, 22. 
Nichols, John, 32. 
Nipnet Indians, 16. 
Norcross, Jeremiah, 5, 6. 

Nathaniel, 6. 
Nowell, Joseph, 38. 

OBITUARIES, 33. 
Officials, 34. 
Osgood, Hooker, 28, 30. 

PALMER; Joseph, 39. 
Parker, Edmund, 22. 
Parmenter, Nathan, 38. 
Parsonage 16S8, 21. 
Pearson, Josiah, 39. 
Peirce, Joshua, 35. 
Pepper, Robert, 14. 
Perry, Seth, 19. 
Phelps, Aaron, 38. 

Abel, 38. 

Edward, 29 
Philip, King, 13, 14, 15, 16. 
Pidge, Jonathan, 26. 
Pike, Ebenezer, 38. 
Pilfer, Joshua, 38. 
Policy, Ebenezer, 33. 
Pope, John, 22. 
Pope, rhonias, 23. 
Pound, 9. 

Powers, Ephraim, 39. 
Pratt, James, 39. 
Prentice, John. 27, 28. 
Prescott, Eben»-zer, 28. 

John, 8, 9, 10, 21, 22, 23, 
28, 34, 35- 

Jonathan, 9, 12, 22. 

Peter, 38. 

Samuel, 27. 
Priest, Daniel, 28. 

(iabriel. 28, 33. 

John, 22, 23, 27, 28. 35. 

Joseph, 33. 
Pumham, 13. 
Putnam, Andrew, 38. 

QUANAPAUG, 7, 12, 13, 
14, 16. 
Quaboag. 7, 12. 
Quanopin, 16, 20. 

RATE lists 1688. 21, 22. 
1723, 32, 33- 
Rayner, Isaac, 38. 



Records lost. 5. 
Red spring, 29. 
Rice, Reuben, 38. 

Silas, 38. 
Richardson, Abel, 39. 

Tilley. 38. 
Rigby, John, 22. 
Robbins, John, 38. 
Robinson, George, 22. 
Rogers, Jeremian. 22. 

Samuel, 33. 
Roper, Enoch, 38. 

Ephraim. 22, 23, 24. 

John, 22, 38. 
Ross, Ebenezer, 38. 

Seth, 38. 

Thomas, 29. 
Rowlandson, Joseph, 13,14, 
17, 20. 

Mary, 13, 14, 19, 20. 

Thomas, 17. 
Rugg, Aaron. 38. 

Elisha, 38. 

John, 22, 23. 

Joseph. 23. 

Samuel, 33. 

SAGAMORES, 6,7. 
Salmon and trout. 6. 
Saltpetre manufacture, 41. 
Sam, Sagamore, 7, 11, 16,17. 
Sawmills, 29, 30. 
Sawtell, Josiah, 28. 
Sawyer, Aaron, 30, 38. 

Amos, 39. 

Bezaleel, 28, 33. 

Caleb, 17, 22, 23, 27, 28, 
30, 32. 

Elias, 28, 32. 

Elisha, 38. 

Ephraim, 12, 37, 39. 

James, 39. 

John, 22, 23. 33. 

Jonathan. 28, 29, 30, 32. 

Joseph, 28, 30, 33. 

Josiah. 39. 

Nathaniel, 23, 29, 38. 

Paul, 39. 

Peter, 39. 

Thomas, 9, 22, 23, 24, 
26, 29, 30, 31. 

William, 28, 32. 
Sawyer Bay, 37. 
Scar highway, 21. 
Scouts, 27. 

Sholan, sagamore, 6, 7, 11. 
Shoshanim, sagamore, 7,11, 

16, 17, 19. 
Simon, Zebedee, 38. 
Snow, Hezekiah. 32. 

Janies. 22,23, 28, 32. 
Soldiers 1675, 12, 18. 

1745, 35, 36- 

1760, 37- . 

ol Revolution, 37, 38, 
39, 40. 

1812, 42. 

Civil War, 42. 
Spoftord, John, 38. 
Stearns, Benjamin, 36. 
Stedman, William. 34. 
Stevens, Cyprian, 11,22,23, 
24, 34- 

Simon, 28. 
Stone, Matthew, 22, 23, 28. 
Stuart, John. 38. 

Joseph. 37. 



INDEX. 



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Sumner, Roger, 9, 22. 

Samuel, 22. 
Sardody's Vengeance, 36. 
Swan, Prudence, 27. 
Swan Swamp. 29. 
Swift, Thomas. 22. 

TAHANTO, George, 7, 
10, 31. 
Thompson, Jonathan, 38. 
Thurston, John, 39. 
Samuel, 41. 
Silas, 38. 
Town, Isaac, 38. 
Town-meeting records, 20, 

21, 29. 
Townsend, Hezekiah, 30, 

32. 
Training fields, 31. 
Trucking house, 24. 
'1 ucker, Arthur, 22. 
Thomas, 29, 32. 



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PCHATTUCK, 7. 
Uskattuhgim, 7. 



WACHUSETT, II, 
Wales, Nathaniel, 22. 
Walker, Seth, 32. 
Wallis, John, 33, 
Ward, Elizabeth, 18. 
Warner, John, 22, 23, 26, 28 

32- 35- 

Samuel, 28, 32, 33. 
Warren, Charles F., 42 
Washacum. 7, 10, 11,30, 
Watananock, 6, 
Wataquadock, 7, 32. 
Waters, Joseph, 22. 

Laurence, 9, 22. 
Weetamoo, 20. 
West, Benjamin, 37. 



Richard. 22, 23. 
Wethersfielci records, 20. 
Wheeler, Abraham, 22,23. 

Benjamin, 33. 

Isaac. 22, 23, 

Jonathan, 28. 

Joshua, 2i- 

Josiah, 28, 33. 

Richard, 9. 

Samuel, 22. 

Zebediah, 22. 
Wheelock, Archippus. 40. 

John, 38. 

Joseph, 28. 
Whitcomb, Asa, 37. 

David, 24, 28, 32. 

Doctress, 24. 

Hezekiah. 28, 33. 

John, 28. 

Jonathan, 23, 29,32. 

Josiah, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 
32. 

Mary, 24. 
White, John, 28. 32- 

Jonathan, 38. 

Josiah, 12, 22, 23, 27, 28. 

Levi, 40. 

Nathaniel, 39. 
Whiting, John, 21, 23, 24. 
Whitney, Caleb, 38. 

Isaiah, 33, 

John, 33. 

Joshua, 38, 

Thomns, 33. 
Whittemore, N athaniel, 36. 
Wilds, Richard, 32. 
Wilder, Benjamin, 38. 

Ebenezer, 28, 30, 33. 

Ehhu, 38. 

Ephraim, 28, 31. 

James, 27, 29, 33. 

John, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 



307 32- 

Jonas, 32. 

Jonathan, 21, 29. 32, 38. 

Joseph, 29, 30, 2i. 

Josiah, 32, 41. 

Mary, 29. 

Nathan, 38. 

Nathaniel, 22, 23, 25, 28. 

Oliver, 25, 28. 

Richard, 29. 

Thomas, 22, 23, 27, 28, 
30. 33- 

William, 38. 
Willard, Aaron, 38. 

Abijah, 40. 

Abraham, 33. 

Benjamin, 22. 

Henry, 22, 23, 28, 33. 

Hezekiah, 28, 32. 

James, 33. 

John, 22, 28, 33, 38. 

Jonathan, 22, 28, 32. 

Joseph, 28, 33. 

josiah, 28, 32. 

Nahum, 49. 

Samuel, 28, 30, 32. 

Simon, 9, ii. 16, 24, 33. 
Wilson, Benjamin, 32. 

Jeremiah, 22, 23, 27, 29, 
33- 

Nathaniel, 22, 23. 

Samuel, 33. 
Winthrop, John, 5, 8. 
Woods, Joseph, 36. 

Samuel, 38. 
Wright, John, 36. 

Thomas, 38. 
Wyman, Matthias, 36. 

Z WEIRS, Jacob, 38. 
Peter, 38. 



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